Read the e-mail. in the interest of public safety, griffin avenue should have a traffic light installed. there have been many traffic accidents recently at griffin avenue and 32nd street. statistics show that overall traffic in the area has also increased. installing a traffic signal at roman avenue reduced accidents by ten percent, so it is likely that installing one at griffin avenue, which has similar conditions, will also result in fewer accidents. at your next council meeting, consider my suggestion for making this intersection safer. what viewpoint is being expressed in the e-mail? due to the number of accidents, the writer feels that griffin avenue needs a traffic light. since roman avenue has a traffic light, the writer feels that griffin avenue also deserves one. due to the fact that 32nd street and roman avenue have traffic lights, the writer wants one for griffin avenue. since the overall traffic has increased on griffin avenue and 32nd street, putting a traffic light there will reduce traffic.

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds.beyond the pit stood the little wedge of people with the white flag at its apex, arrested by these phenomena, a little knot of small vertical black shapes upon the black ground. as the green smoke arose, their faces flashed out pallid green, and faded again as it vanished. then slowly the hissing passed into a humming, into a long, loud, droning noise. slowly a humped shape rose out of the pit, and the ghost of a beam of light seemed to flicker out from it.forthwith flashes of actual flame, a bright glare leaping from one to another, sprang from the scattered group of men. it was as if some invisible jet impinged upon them and flashed into white flame. it was as if each man were suddenly and momentarily turned to fire.then, by the light of their own destruction, i saw them staggering and falling, and their supporters turning to run.which options accurately describe how the author develops the plot in the excerpt? (select all that apply.)the war of the worldsthe narrator does not react at first as he watches the men with the flag and hears the sounds in the pit. his inaction decreases the tension in the plot because the narrator is simply standing by.the narrator does not react at first as he watches the men with the flag and hears the sounds in the pit. his inaction keeps the tension steadily increasing as the narrator comes to realize the men are being killed.the narrator is distracted by his own observations of the men with the white flag and the humming sound, so he doesn't react as quickly as he should when the men are killed, thus extending the tension in the plot.the narrator is attentive to the men with the white flag and the humming sound, so he immediately understands what has happened when the men are killed, increasing the tension in the plot.